Tobacco pipe



June 7, 1932. E,I M SHQEMAKER TOBACCO PIPE Filed Aug. 19. 1931 5er/7am /7 Ace/naief INVENTOR ATTORNEY u Patented June 7, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BERNARD M. SHOEMAKER, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 DEMUTH & C0., 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK TOBACCO PIPE v Application filed August 19, 1931.

My invention relates to improvements in tobacco pipes and has reference particularly to a receptacle, forming an extension of the inner end of the mouthpiece and being adapted to project into the bore of the pipe stem for the purpose of containing a perfumed and flavored pellet which, being in the direct line of the smoke passage between the pipe and mouthpiece, combines its flavor and aroma with the smoke being drawn from the bowl of the pipe into the mouth of the smoker.

The invention has for its principal object t-o construct the receptacle for the pellet in the form of a bottle shaped conduit which is open at the bottom end and interiorly threaded to screw over a union projecting from the inner end of the mouthpiece and forming a continuation of the receptacle conduit in the end of the mouthpiece.

A further object of the invention is to provide the threaded end of the union with spaced axial projections which extend inside the receptacle conduit and form an interrupted annular s'eat against which the pellet may seat without interfering with the smoke passage.

I accomplish these objects by means of an arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described7 set forth in the appended claims and illustratively eXempliiied in the accompanying drawing, in which, Figure 1 is a substantially longitudinal sectional view through a pipe equipped with the improvement; Figure 2 is a substantially longitudinal sectional view on an enlarged scale of the receptacle conduit and union; and Figure 3 is a substantially transverse sectional view of the receptacle and union taken on lines 3 3 of Figure 2.

Referring to the drawing, 10 denotes the bowl of a pipe having a stem portion 11 provided with a bore 12 into which the shank 13 of a mouthpiece lif'is engaged, a passage 15 being provided at the other end of the bore 12 to establish communication with the bowl 10. The bore 12 of the mouthpiece is substantially longer than the shank 13 so that there is a chamber 16 formed beyond the shank 13 and between the latter and the passage 15. The mouthpiece itself is provided Serial N0. 558,092.

with bore or smoke passage 17 which receives in its shank end, a union or nipple 18.

The nipple 18 comprises a tubular shank having' an exteriorly threaded enlargement 19 at one end, the shoulder formed by the enlargement seating against the free end of the shank 13, as illustrated in Figure 1. Beyond the enlargement 19 and arranged concentrically about the entrance into the bore of the tubular nipple is an interrupted annular seat 20. The seat 20 is virtually a castellated circular projection against which a pellet 21, in the form of a ball, may seat without interfering with the passage of smoke into the mouthpiece.

A receptacle to contain the pellet 21 is carried by the threaded enlargement 19 of the nipple and comprises a hollow bottle shaped member 22 having its bottom end open and interiorly threaded to screw over the threads of the enlargement, as illustrated in Figure 2. The chamber 23 in the interior of the receptacle 22 accommodates one or more of the pellets 21 and at its other end is narrowed down to a small bore 24 which projects through the neck portion of the bottle shaped receptacle and opens into the bore or chamber 16 adjacent the passage 15 of the pipe stem 11.

In practice, the pellets 21 are a porous element that will serve to contain either flavoring or perfumes or both, which in the process of smoking, will combine their flavor and aroma with the smoke passing between the bowl 10 and the bore 17 in the mouth piece.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A tobacco pipe comprising a bowl having a stem communicating therewith, a mouthpiece engaged in the free end of the stem, and a receptacle conduit at the end of the mouthpiece extending into the stem and providing an elongated chamber with an interrupted seat at one end for an element which is received in the receptacle and free to move through the chamber.

2. A tobacco pipe comprising a bowl having a stem communicating therewith, a mouthpiece engaged in the free end of the stern, a nipple projecting 4from the mouthpiece into the stem and having an enlargement terminating at its free end in an interrupted annular seat, and a receptacle conduit supported on the enlargement of the nipple and proieeted into the stern, said interrupted seat forming :a stop `for an element which is received in the receptacle Without interfering with the passage of smoke between bowl and mouthpiece.

8. A tobacco pipe as -olaimed inelaimQ, :in Which the receptacle is a hollow bottle Shaped member having the bottom end open Vand interiorly threaded and .the neck .end provid- 15 ed With a reduced bore communicating With the interior of the body portion, and in which the enlargement of the nipple is exteriorlly threaded to :screw into Ythe .threaded Iopen fend of `the receptacle.

'-' 1n testimony whereof I a-iiix my signature.

BERNARD M. SHQEMAKER. 

